Taste may change, but inclination never.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDPassion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
More Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
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Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
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How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
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Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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Usually we praise only to be praised.
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